The Elite vs. The Acclaimed & Hiroshi Tanahashi added to AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door
Two new matches have been added to Forbidden Door.
Hiroshi Tanahashi will team with The Acclaimed to take on The Elite (The Young Bucks & Kazuchika Okada). After The Elite challenged The Acclaimed to a trios match, Billy Gunn said while he’d like to team up with The Acclaimed, he happened to know a president. That is when Tanahashi appeared on the video screen and announced he’d team with Max Caster & Anthony Bowens this Sunday.
This would be the first time Okada and Tanahashi have faced off since Okada’s departure from NJPW earlier this year.
Willow Nightingale and Tam Nakano will team up on Sunday, taking on Kris Statlander and Momo Watanabe. In a video, Statlander challenged Nightingale to a warm up match ahead of their Owen Hart Foundation tournament bout on next Wednesday’s Dynamite. The match was later confirmed for Forbidden Door’s Zero Hour pre-show.
It was also announced on Dynamite that Bryan Keith will not be wrestling at Forbidden Door after suffering an injury. Jericho attempted to recruit Minoru Suzuki into being part of his trios team, but Suzuki rejected the offer and instead challenged Jericho to an FTW title match. It was explained on social media that the trios match between The Learning Tree and Hook, Katsuyori Shibata, and Samoa Joe at Forbidden Door is still on, but Jericho needs to find a new partner.
Here is the updated lineup for Forbidden Door:
- AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland defends against Will Ospreay
- Ladder match for the vacant TNT Championship: Konosuke Takeshita vs. Mark Briscoe vs. Jack Perry vs. Lio Rush vs. Dante Martin vs. TBA
- Title for title: TBS Champion Mercedes Mone vs. NJPW Strong Women’s Champion Stephanie Vaquer
- AEW Women’s Championship: Toni Storm defends against Mina Shirakawa
- IWGP World Heavyweight title: Jon Moxley defends against Tetsuya Naito
- Owen Hart Foundation men’s quarterfinal match: Bryan Danielson vs. Shingo Takagi
- MJF vs. Hechicero
- Zack Sabre Jr. vs. Orange Cassidy
- The Elite (Kazuchika Okada & The Young Bucks) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi & The Acclaimed
- The Learning Tree (Chris Jericho, Big Bill, and TBA) vs. Samoa Joe, Hook, and Katsuyori Shibata
- Zero Hour: Kris Statlander & Momo Watanabe vs. Willow Nightingale & Tam Nakano